The WTO trap("In the
aftermath of World War II, a coterie of international elitists proposed
a constellation of multilateral economic organizations to supplement the
United Nations: the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the
International Trade Organization (ITO). In 1947, a delegation of U.S.
diplomatic officials attended a conference in Havana intended to
finalize the framework for the ITO.")

Suspicions are rife especially when
there are so many coincidences, the biggest being this quake occurred 12
months to the day from
the last big quake in Iran.

There seem to be many anomalies in the weather patterns of this planet
and they are becoming more frequent, strange weather patterns that never
occurred before, for instance, snow has
fallen over the United Arab Emirates for the first time ever,
in a country that has an average summer temperature of 50c.

THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE Was killer tsunami a manmade disaster?(In 1997,
it was publicly maintained that climate can be remotely altered--evencatastrophically--by terrorists. Who was the lunatic fringe conspiracy
theorist making the claim? None other than Secretary of Defense William
Cohen.)

Why "The
Passion" still troubles me(Nearly a
year after The Passion of The Christ
triumphant premiere, the ADL's Abe Foxman still can't leave it alone.
And why not, as this pseudo issue gives him a great propaganda op to
spew his slurs against Catholics --particularly Mel Gibson--to the
gullible Jews whose contributions line the ADL's coffers. Since he's
seen the film, it's difficult to believe, even aswe would prefer to err
on the side of charity, that Foxman doesn't know that he is
grossly misrepresenting the film and its producer, as when he alludes to
Gibson's purported 'depiction
of the Jews as representing the devil."
Meanwhile, Foxman's Hollywood counterparts prefer a
pro-Commie biopic over Mel's masterpiece.)

BACKGROUND COLUMN HAARP: Vandalism in the sky?("In 1994 the US Air Force revealed its Spacecast 2020
master plan which includes weather control. Scientists have experimented
with weather control since the 1940s, but Spacecast 2020 noted
that 'using environmental modification techniques to destroy, damage or
injure another state [is] prohibited'. Having said that, the Air Force
claimed that advances in technology 'compels a re-examination
of this sensitive and potentially risky topic'.")

Iraqi insurgents threaten attack inside
United States(A threat issued over the
Internet by 'the Islamic Army of Iraq,' a shadowy group whose existence,
like that of Al Qaeda,
is questionable. Such an attack would play into the hands of those who
seek to turn America into a police state and maintain a permanent
presence of U.S. troops in the Middle East.)

Oppose the draft? It's already here(What's
being discussed here is involuntarily extended active duty. While this
is a serious problem that needs to be opposed, it shouldn't blind us to
the ongoing drive to reinstate the draft, which will come about
unless enough Americans challenge it.)

Government tsunami relief: A foreign aid disaster
in the making('The billions of dollars (or
the equivalent in other currencies) being sent to Indonesia, India, Sri
Lanka, and other devastated areas are bound to do some good; it
would be impossible to spend all that tax money without some of it
leaking out to benefit some of the disaster victims.')

AGerman cardinal on Saturday said he regretted comparing
abortion to the genocides carried out by Hitler and Stalin, which sparked
a public outcry here, and claimed to have been misunderstood.

"I regret that it has got to this pitch," the Roman Catholic Cardinal
of Cologne, Joachim Meisner, said, stressing that he would never have made
such a comparison if he had thought it could have been open to
misinterpretation.

While President
George Bush said some of the right things about the need for religion
in the Oval Office, his record (including the betrayal of the unborn,
support for illegal aliens, 'gay' partnerships and Zionism), hardly
suggests him being the sincere, even sainted Christian envisioned by his
followers (see photo right). Nevertheless, his remarks do point to the war
that is being waged for America's identity.

On
January 11th President Bush said that he doesn't "see
how you can be president without a relationship with the Lord," but that
he is always mindful to protect the right of others to worship or not
worship.
Mr. Bush told editors and reporters of The Washington Times in
an interview in the Oval Office that many in the public misunderstand the
role of faith in his life and his view of the proper relationship between
religion and the government.
"I think people attack me because they are fearful that I will then
say that you're not equally as patriotic if you're not a religious
person," Mr. Bush said....

New tape
shows JFK fumed over civil rights pressures(Note that President Kennedy
properly saw this as a state--not federal-- issue; it is at that level
that it should be dealt with by changing the state laws or, if a
majority of citizens seek to keep the old laws, then those opposed must
accept them, work to change them or move to another state.
Unfortunately, that truth has been subverted and the federal government
unconstitutionally interferes with something that isn't any of its
business.)

No Kid Rock, but F-word still present(The Bush
inaugural's youth concert backed off Kid Rock invitation after
pro-family groups protested, but still got its message across: To the
traditional values crowd that re-elected G.W.--We really pulled a fast
one on you, didn't we?!)

AUDIO/TEXT
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee confirms Rice(Kerry and Boxer were
dissenting votes. Talk about being partisan hypocrites! They supported a
liar when it came to Democrat Bill Clinton, but not the Republican liar
Condi Rice. For an extensive--though probably not exhaustive--list of
her deceptions, click here.)

With a Little Boy in the back("We drove a
full-scale WMD 800 miles across the United States and no one stopped or
questioned us." This article is troubling on a number of counts,
not the least that it might provide a pretext for the Feds to take away
more of our liberties in the name of security, such as setting up
checkpoints at state borders.)

MOVIE REVIEW
Orwellian version of 'The Merchant of Venice'
opens in movie theaters('Shylock
undergoes a tinsel-town facelift and becomes a sort of Tudor-era
'Holocaust' victim in a new film version of "Merchant," featuring a
star-studded cast, headed by Al Pacino.' So, Shakespeare's genius is
perverted in this mutilation of his classic,
writes Michael Hoffman Meanwhile, a Jewish reporter in the UK attacks the film
for inadequately purging itself of Shakespearean 'anti-Semitism'.)

The Bush Administration's "Enabling Act"(In
early December, the Justice Department quietly placed on its website a
memorandum from 2001 entitled "The President's Constitutional
Authority to Conduct Military Operations Against Terrorists and Nations
Supporting Them," a document that sets out, on behalf of the Bush
administration, a plainly totalitarian view of presidential power.)

In one of the
most successful marketing campaigns in modern political history, the
"abortion rights movement" – with all of its emotionally compelling
catch-phrases and powerful political slogans – has succeeded in turning
what once was a heinous crime into a fiercely defended constitutional
right.

During the tumultuous 1960s, after
centuries of legal prohibition and moral condemnation of abortion, a
handful of dedicated activists launched an unprecedented marketing
campaign. Their aim was twofold: first, to capture the news media and thus
public opinion, and then, to change the nation's abortion laws....

'Satan's cheerleaders'(Obviously, some of those who
use a hand signal associated with Satanism do some mistakenly thinking
that they are making a similar non-occult sign. Still, you'd think
they'd want to come up with something less confusing. For more on this
curious phenomenon, click here.)

War party's atrocity porn("The horrific
experience of Iraqi woman Jumana Hanna -- supposedly imprisoned, raped,
and tortured for years on the orders of Uday Hussein -- was cited by the
Bush administration and its supporters as 'reason alone' for the war.
But Hanna's story -- like the rest of the administration's case -- was a
tissue of fabrications.")

Unborn child's abortion pain
bill Introduced, pro-life groups supportive
(Supportive of what?! This bill really perpetuates the status
quo, promoting the abortion equivalent of lethal injection, which gained
wide acceptance as a 'painless' alternative to less 'humane' forms of
capital punishment. A murdered baby is just as dead one way or the
other, so don't be deceived into believing that this is somehow a
pro-life measure--it isn't. Worse, it deceives pro-lifers into thinking
they're doing something constructive, when in reality they're making
abortion more palatable, as in: 'It's not so bad; the procedure is quick
and the baby doesn't feel any pain.)

The end of the search
("What
can we say? The search for Iraq's 'weapons of mass destruction' has
finally ended. None were found, of course. Even the hawks who insisted
that Saddam Hussein had them aren't demanding that we keep looking.")

Bush: U.S. must stay in Iraq after election(Not that this is in any way
news, since he's said all along that this is part of his war without
boundaries, but it does recondition Americans to accept a conflict that
will require an endless supply of their sons and daughters for troops.)

One of the Vatican's famed
Swiss Guards stands before the entrance of its Secret Archives. A Jewish
coalition is threatening a lawsuit to gain access to archival files. The
announcement comes less than a week after John Paul II hosted
over 130 Jewish
leaders, the most ever at the Vatican.

A Bronx-based
Jewish group announced plans Thursday to sue the Vatican to force the
opening of secret archives
that might identify thousands of Jewish children baptized as Catholics to
save them from the Nazis, and never returned to their families.

"As long as the children of all those murdered at Auschwitz do not know
their true identities, and as along as the murdered at Auschwitz have
descendents who still do not know their true lineage, how can we truly say
that Auschwitz has been liberated," said
Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, vice president of
the Coalition for Jewish Concerns. "We want our children back."

Iraq voter
turnout lowered("The Independent Election
Commission of Iraq (IECI) said on Sunday its initial tally of 72% had
been little more than a guess based on local estimates. The panel has
since revised the estimated turnout at 60% to 75%." Shouldn't the word
"independent" be put in quotation marks?)

Medical Marxism: wave of the future?
)"Karl
Marx may have suffered a second death at the end of the last century,
but look for a spirited comeback in this one," predicts Harvard
economist Kenneth Rogoff in the January/February issue of Foreign
Policy. "The next great battle between socialism and capitalism will
be waged over human health.")

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